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November 2025

November 15, 2025
Because immigration touches on human dignity, labor, the family, and the common good, it resists...
November 07, 2025
Are we building up the Church or breaking it down? Sometimes, it can feel embarrassing...

October 2025

October 31, 2025
I like praying in cemeteries. During my formation years in Germany especially, I liked to...
October 28, 2025
Education is not an accessory, but central to evangelization. – Pope Leo XIV Yesterday, a...
October 27, 2025
When Pope Paul VI published his encyclical Humanae Vitae, the world was stunned. Many expected...
October 24, 2025
Why is it so hard to be good? Don’t we sometimes have the impression that...
October 17, 2025
Have you ever felt like your cries for justice are falling on deaf ears? When...
October 10, 2025
With the publication of his first Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi te, Pope Leo XIV has offered...

September 2025

September 26, 2025
We’ve all seen those cringeworthy videos where someone films himself “helping the poor” more for...
September 19, 2025
Something the Gospel message is simple: be faithful in small things before being entrusted with...
September 09, 2025
Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross – a feast that...
September 04, 2025
When Jesus tells us to carry our cross, it is because he knows that we...
September 04, 2025
Do you ever wish you had space to pray? I remember listening to a woman...

August 2025

August 28, 2025
Perhaps there should have been a moratorium on church architecture for a few decades. We...
August 25, 2025
Born into nobility and made a cardinal at just 22, Charles Borromeo could have chased...
August 21, 2025
If clericalism arises when priests become the focus of worship, then a liturgical orientation that...
August 18, 2025
This summer, I ate more mushrooms than I ever thought possible. I was staying at...
August 14, 2025
“Clericalism” is a hot-button issue. Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis criticized clericalism. Clericalism is an...
August 11, 2025
“Jeremiah” was one of my nicknames early on in my formation. A priest, whom I...
August 05, 2025
As summer turns to fall, students are heading off to college, many for the first...
August 04, 2025
Do you bless your meal in public? I remember working at a Catholic Summer Camp...
August 01, 2025
The first time I read D.H. Lawrence’s “Rocking Horse Winner” about greed, it left a...

July 2025

July 31, 2025
University students across the English-speaking world owe a debt of gratitude to Cardinal Newman. Newman...

May 2025

May 30, 2025
In The Bicentennial Man, a lifelike robot seeks recognition as human. After two centuries, it...
May 24, 2025
Few forms of entertainment beat professional sports. The amount of production that goes into a...
May 16, 2025
Lions only roar when they have to do so. Our new Holy Father has taken...
May 07, 2025
Unity and Communion: A Gospel Invitation Today’s Gospel (cf. Jn. 10:27-30) reveals the intimate union...

April 2025

April 30, 2025
During his campaign, President Donald Trump touted his support for work and promised to support...
April 30, 2025
We all feel at certain points in our lives the sting of betrayal, and sometimes...
April 26, 2025
Did Pope John Paul II feel fear? One of the refrains of his papacy was...
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